Driver held for stealing tour company's bus over unpaid wages in Palghar

A former driver with a tour company has been arrested for allegedly stealing a bus over unpaid wages in Maharashtras Palghar district police said on Tuesday reported news agency PTIThe owner of a tour company reported the vehicle missing from the Waliv Phata area on December 23 following which a theft case was registered an official saidDuring the investigation the police zeroed in on Kunal Kishore Gaikwad 27 a former employee Upon interrogation he confessed that he had stolen the vehicle in a fit of rage as the company owed him one months salary despite repeated requests he said reported PTIThe stolen bus worth Rs 15 lakh was recovered from Vasai he addedBadlapur couple loses Rs 219 lakh in share trading scamIn another case a couple from Maharashtras Thane district was allegedly cheated of Rs 219 lakh by cyber fraudsters who lured them into indulging in share trading on a WhatsApp group police said on Tuesday reported PTIThe victims who are residents of Badlapur lost the sum within 11 days of joining a group called Bull Market Guide Community on WhatsApp in November an official saidHe said that unidentified fraudsters added the complainants to the WhatsApp group and promised them high returns through share trading They were coerced into investing Rs 219 lakh in various shares but found out that they had been cheated when they were unable to withdraw their original investment and the promised profits reported PTIThe police have registered a first information report under Section 318 cheating of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and relevant provisions of the Information Technology IT Act the official said adding that a probe is underwayMan posing as ticket inspector nabbed on express train in Thane districtMeanwhile a 27yearold man was arrested after he was caught masquerading as a railway ticket inspector onboard an express train in Maharashtras Thane district the government railway police said on MondayThe incident occurred on the Tapovan Express plying between Manmad and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus CSMT on December 26 an official said reported PTISurendra Rajendra Maurya a resident of Uttar Pradesh was nabbed after a passenger informed a chief ticket inspector CTI that another official had been checking tickets in a different compartment reported PTIKnowing no other inspector was assigned to the train CTI and his colleagues confronted Maurya at Kasara station and realised he was an imposterA case was registered against the accused under the Railways Act and Section 204 personating a public servant of the Bharatiya Nyaya SanhitaWith inputs from PTI